Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Trans Ban? Let’s Ban Everyone from the Military!
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses the reality that the U.S. military is the largest source of violence and environmental racism in the world.
Nikkita Oliver: Black Anti-Militarism and the Trans Ban
NIkkita Oliver discusses Black anti-militarism, the reality that the U.S. military is the largest source of violence and environmental racism in the world, and the ways activists should resist the trans military ban, not by fighting for more inclusive military service but by banning it for all.
Queer Anti-Militarism Townhall: Trans Liberation Not U.S. Invasion
In this video, speakers at a town hall in Seattle explore queer and trans resistance to militarism and the racist, sexist, transphobic, and environmental violence of U.S. imperialism.
Matt Remle: Militarism and Environmental Racism Against Indigenous People
In this video, Matt Remle discusses the adverse environmental and health consequences of war and militarism on indigenous communities, and the ugency of anti-war resistance.
Karen Barad: Undoing the Future
The indeterminacy of time-being at the core of quantum theory troubles the scalar distinction between the world of subatomic particles and that of social phenomena such as colonialism, capitalism, militarism, racism, nationalism and environmental destruction – all of which are entangled with nuclear and particle physics research. Quantum physics is a material-discursive practice with direct […]
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to the White Power Presidency
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor is currently […]
Simone Browne: Keynote at Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Keynote lecture at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit
“Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit” (Trailer), a performance installation on the medical industrial complex at the 43rd annual Scholar and Feminist Conference
“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons
Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology
Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons
Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
“they said in the name of self-defense”: Technologies of Surveillance and the Selling of the In/Security State
Featuring Rabab Abdulhadi, Dylan Rodríguez, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade, moderated by Craig Willse, at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
Alisha Walker: Survived and Punished
Alisha Walker is in prison for defending her life. #FreeAlisha
Atlantic is a Sea of Bones
Directed by Tourmaline, produced by Sasha Wortzel and Hope Dector, this experimental short film starring Egyptt LaBeija explores how small every day acts of refusal, resistance, and existence—such as performance and self expression—have a tremendous impact on the world.
Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished
Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!
Invisible No More: Criminalizing Webs
Featuring Kassandra Frederique (New York State Director, Drug Policy Alliance), Joo-Hyun Kang (Director, Communities United for Police Reform), Mizue Aizeki (Deputy Director, Immigrant Defense Project), and Chaumtoli Huq (Law@TheMargins)
Invisible No More: Policing Girls
Featuring Cedra Sebastien (Associate Director, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Firdaws Roufai (Youth Leader, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Miaija Jawara (Urban Youth Collaborative), and Octavia Y. Lewis (Trans Health Activist & Young Women’s Initiative). Moderated by Joanne Smith (Girls for Gender Equity)
Invisible No More: Police Responses to Violence
Featuring Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived & Punished and Project NIA), Cara Page (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Jemisha Williams (Audre Lorde Project, Safe Outside the System), and Renata Hill (New Jersey 7). Moderated by Ejeris Dixon (Vision Change Win Consulting)
Invisible No More: Policing Motherhood
Featuring Erin Cloud (Team Leader, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders), Victoria Law (author), Dorothy Roberts (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Jeanne Flavin (Professor, Fordham University), and Dinah Ortiz (Parent Advocate Supervisor, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders). Moderated by Monifa Bandele (Vice-President, MomsRising)
Invisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex
Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kate Mogulescu (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), Bianey Garcia (Lead Organizer, Make the Road NY), and LaLa Zanell (Lead Organizer, NYC Anti-Violence Project)
Invisible No More: From Combahee to Stonewall to Say Her Name & Beyond
Featuring Barbara Smith (Founder, Combahee River Collective), Tourmaline (Filmmaker and Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Professor, Columbia University School of Law), Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived and Punished and Project NIA), and Robyn Maynard (author, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present). Moderated by Tina Campt (Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women)
Treva Ellison: Black Trans Reproductive Labor
A lecture by Treva Ellison
Invisible No More: Chicago
Invisible No More, a panel discussion featuring Beth Richie, Cynthia Blair, Nadine Naber, Barbara Ransby, Deana Lewis, Janaé Bonsu, Page May, Sangeetha Ravichandran, Alexis Pegues, and LaSaia Wade
Sara Ahmed: The Institutional As Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection
Sara Ahmed delivers the annual Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture
Homes for All, Cages for None: Housing Justice in an Age of Abolition
A conversation between Christina Heatherton and Craig Willse
‘Song in a Weary Throat’: Pauli Murray’s Life and Legacy
A conversation featuring Rosalind Rosenberg, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace), and moderated by Monica L. Miller
Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt
Featuring Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas
Ky Peterson: Survived and Punished
Ky Peterson should be free, but right now he is in prison for defending his life against physical and sexual assault.
Paris Knox: Survived and Punished
Paris Knox is a 38-year-old Black mother sentenced to 40 years in prison for defending her life against an abusive ex-partner.
Marissa Alexander: Survived and Punished
Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot into the ceiling. Learn about her story and the creative organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.